The Lime Rock Park Full Course with the Mazda MX-5s (Cup / Roadster) next Wednesday night.

9:00 - 9:20 Practice
9:20 - 9:45 Qualifying
9:45 - 30 Lap Race

-Fixed Setups
-Unlimited Tows

Password to join session is "amp" (all lower case)

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Lap times at Lime Rock are signifigantly shorter lap than Okayama

Right now I have it set to 30 laps.

With 20mins practice and 25mins qualifying we can do up to 70 laps for the race.

I think we should increase it to 40 or 50 laps.
Thoughts?

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

How long was the race last night? 50-55 minutes?

We could easily run a 50 lap race at Lime Rock and come in under that time. By my calculations using my average lap time, we could do over 53 laps in 55 minutes.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I'd be game for 50.... I mean it'd still be shorter (time wise) than the race we ran last night.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I'm fine with a longer race at Lime Rock, it gives me more time to catch up after I screw up! The only bad part about the longer races is when people crash in corner 1 on the first lap, it pretty much kills your whole race from everyone having fun together with some close racing.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

Turn 1 at Lime Rock is bad for that too. But it's pretty much inevitable that part of the field is gonna crash at some point in a 50 lap race, especially when we have such a wide spread in skill & experience. Still fun though!

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

No option for two shorter races eh?

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

Two shorter races is NOT an option with iRacing hosting. BUT, if you were to double your cost, meaning pay $2 instead of $1 dollar you could set up 2x 2hour sessions. We could have a shorter race in the first session and then everyone exit out, move onto the other session and start another short race. Basically still use the 2 hour time from 9pm-11pm, but pay for 2 separate 2 hour sessions. Make sence?

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

Anyone turn any practice laps yet?
If so what were your times?

I'm thinking about going online tonight for some practice runs.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I might have some time to hop on tonight. It'll be the first laps I've turned since I was ghosting the last race.

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2005 Forester XT (Daily/B2Tuned), 2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS P4WD Class Rally Car, 2006 WRX RallyCross Car (Sponsors: Rally-Tech, Great North Performance, ISI Automotive)
Check out: Rally East, The Ledwidge Lookoff Rally

Same here... haven't touched iRacing since last Wednesday.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I haven't done any practicing per say, but my personal best at Lime Rock in the MX-5 is 1:00.238.

The World Record in the MX-5 is 58.864 and 58.478 in the roadster.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

My new pedals are acting up.. throttle won't stay calibrated (fancy Fanatec my ass..). So I'll be out of action for the foreseeable future!

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Tim G
Halifax, NS

Just map throttle and brake to two buttons on the steering wheel

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I'm online right now practicing.
If anyone wants to join me I don't mind spending $1 to host a practice session for an hour.

Let me know.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Just reply to this thread.... I'll refresh it every few minutes.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Ok after about a dozen laps, my best is a 1:02.072

I know I'm losing a lot of time in turn 1... probably close to a second, maybe more.
I'm not flat out for the highspeed turns, but close (final 3 turns). Not sure if any can be taken flat out or not, but I either lift a little or just keep my foot flat and dab the brake.

I can run 1:03s comfortably..... but the big challenge with this track is how to crash to minimize damage/time.... hehe

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Ok off to bed.... er GT5

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

Yeah, I can't run 1:00's consistently. I average mid-1:01's.

Corner 1 (Big Bend) is where I lost a lot of time initially. It's tough. The last corner (Diving Turn) is also tough to nail. You don't have to brake, but you do have to lift to get the nose tucked into the apex.

Really, the only corners you can run flat-out are the Esses, and cresting The Uphill (if you get your car lined up straight).

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

So who all is in tonight?

Brian P is coming over to watch the iRacing at my place.

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

I'll be there and I was talking to Brad Sellars today, he plans to be there.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

Can you go on and watch, yeah sounds kinda weird, but thought it may be cool to see what it's like.

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Race Director for AMKA
Atlantic Region Karting Director
ARMS Race Steward

I'm in...

I'll try and stay out of everybody's way

Stacy

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

Jeff, I'm pretty sure the only way anyone can watch is to be a member of iRacing and you must own the cars/tracks of the race you want to watch. Kind of sucks but short of going to someones house and watching over their shoulder I don't think there is any way.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

Brian's right... there's no way to watch from your home computer unless you are an iRacing member and own the tracks/cars in use.

Now that said Brian Partridge is going to watch from my place tonight.
Show starts at 9.


PS-This is my 3999th post

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"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."-William Gibson
1989 Van Diemen - Formula 2000 Continental

OK, sounds fair, I bought my son the three months for $10 deal, guess I better sign up, see if this old dell will run it....lol, turn everything off and put the setting son low low....lol

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Race Director for AMKA
Atlantic Region Karting Director
ARMS Race Steward

Get signed up Jeff and come out and play, either you or your son!

I have a 7 or 8 year old Dell gaming computer, runs iRacing fine with alot of the detail turned to low plus turning off a bunch of stuff like Vertical Shaders, V-Sync, shadow passes... there is a link somewhere Scott M posted to the iRacing fourm which gives advice on settings depending on which video card you have.

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Brian
VP, AMP
#51 Vantage Motorsports

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/m ... stid=80818



Congrats to Brian W! He started from poll and immediately built a sizable gap. Paul & Brian G were nose-to-tail battling for 2nd place for the first few laps with me trailing close behind. Then Brain G spun on Big Bend and I inherited 3rd place. With the pressure off Paul, he began to pull away from me. And after several laps, Brian G's ultimate pace allowed him to reel me back in and retake 3rd.

Not sure what happened outside the top four. I meant to save the replay to capture some pics & video, but forgot.

I'm kinda disappointed that iRacing doesn't calculate points towards the tournament championship. I guess if we want to have an ongoing championship, well have to do the points tally ourselves.

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR

I found a setting that asks me if I want to save a session when I exit out.

Not that I know how to get still pictures or export video ...so below is a crappy cellphone video from last night:

http://www.triplertele.com/nbscc/iracingcrash.MOV
Sorry, I can't figure out how to embed Quicktime either... maybe a moderator could fix?

During qualifying I got into a real tank slapper after exiting T4? (the turn that looks like a sharper version of T7 at AMP) but I managed to save it without hitting anything except that I was aimed at the inside of T5? ("the uphill"). Rather than try to get back on the track (as I was still carrying a lot of speed) I thought I would continue straight and cut the corner. Boy was I wrong! What a place for an access road (...and I assume that because of the level of detail in iRacing that this launching pad really exists?)

At least I didn't end up in a tree like Brian G. earlier

Stacy
PS thanks Scott for letting me "ghost" you from inside your car after the race last night, it was a good learning tool. Now if I could just find a brake pedal that doesn't go from no brake force to lockup in .01" I'd be all set.

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The fricton circle for my 911 Porsche resembles more of an oblong... I'm either trailbraking or accelerating while trying to get it to turn!

Ha ha! I remember seeing that from a distance. Quite spectacular!

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1997 Talon TSi AWD
2008 EVO X MR